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THE UNDERTAKER,
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most outrageous row busted out in the cellar a body ever heard; it was only one dog, but he made a most powerful racket, and he kept it up, right along; the parson he had to stand there, over the coffin, and wait—you couldn't hear yourself think. It was right down awkward, and nobody didn't man in long black coat
THE UNDERTAKER.

seem to know what to do. But pretty soon they see that long-legged undertaker make a sign to the preacher as much as to say, "Dont you worry—just depend on me." Then he stopped down and begun to glide along the wall, just his shoulders showing over the people's heads. So he glided along, and the pow-wow and racket getting more and more outrageous all the

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